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Brothers whose drug exploits were glorified in Mexican drug ballad get lengthy prison sentences


February 21, 2020

Music from Mexico filled a dreary, wood-paneled federal courtroom Thursday in Dallas, but the occasion was far from festive. Prosecutors played the narcocorrido, or drug ballad, during the sentencing of Felix Giovanni Ruiz Mendoza, who got 18 years in federal prison for importing Mexican methamphetamine and selling it in North Texas. The goal: to show his ties to Mexican drug …

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